Faculty of Engineering University of Porto
Dr. Vítor Jorge Pais Vilar
He is principal researcher in the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering-Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials (LSRE-LCM), Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal. He earned his BSc (2001) and PhD (2006) in Chemical Engineering from FEUP.
From 2016-2020 he served as Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Pollution Research Journal (Springer). He is currently Associate Editor of Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and member of the editorial board of Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances (Elsevier) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). He is member of the Environmental Biotechnology Division of the European Federation of Biotechnology, member of the scientific committee of the International Ph.D. School on AOPs and coordinator of the Iberoamerican Conference on Advanced Oxidation Technologies (CIPOA).
He has expertise on environmental assessment and monitoring of surface waters, environmental remediation technologies (biological oxidation, adsorption/biosorption, ion-exchange, advanced oxidation processes, electrochemical advanced oxidation processes, ozonation and membrane filtration), wastewater resources recovery and process integration & intensification.
He also provides advisory services to public institutions and environmental & water industry. He has more than 500 scientific publications, including 227 ISI papers (h-index of 46, >7500 citations) and 2 patents. He is included in a list of the most cited scientists in world released by Stanford University.